The Crow

Looks like another attempt at a remake of The Crow has fizzled, this one just a few weeks before shooting. As it’s over 24 years since the first film I would be okay with a new version - even if the sequels were more or less remakes anyway.

That said, I was never sold on Jason Momoa to star... because I don’t believe that what kills the character in the first place would hurt him. :D

Meanwhile, Hollywood has no trouble making variations on The Punisher - the next one stars Jennifer Garner, and the trailer features Exhumed by Zola Jesus. Which you’d think could fit The Crow...

Solo: A Star Wars Story

So... unlike Rogue One, Solo has an opening crawl (though it comes in three captions and doesn’t crawl) and it uses the poster logo and A Star Wars Story subtitle.

Han starts in a black shirt and white vest.

Qi’ra sounds a bit posh for a Corellian scrumrat.

More GUMSHOE at Bundle Of Holding

2018 GUMSHOE core books and accessories, and GUMSHOE 2 sourcebooks and accessories.

A first time GM's story

Gita Jackson on Kotaku talks about her first time running a game.

“This weekend I DMed my first tabletop RPG. I was really nervous about it, but it was actually way easier than I thought it would be.”

The game in question is The Sprawl, a PBTA cyberpunk RPG.

Snarky dialogue note for future reference

“It’s okay, you killed my good mood before it could do any lasting damage.”

The Blade screening game

Looks like plans for the escape room style game to go with the anniversary screening of Blade got dialled back a bit on the night. The human, vampire, hunter and familiar teams didn’t seem to go ahead.

The first puzzle was a sliding block game on a touchscreen, which since there were a couple hundred people in the audience could have usefully had more than one available. (It tied in to some nice computer graphics and imitation news and adverts playing on projector walls.) The second puzzle was doable by a larger group, but could have also been available in more than one place.

The third, based on Pearl from the film, was a right laugh. More of this kind of thing!

The screening itself also featured bits of theatre, lighting and smoke. It probably wasn’t the ideal way to see the film for the first time.

The Night In Question And Answer

Matthew Webb of Jackalope LARP talks The Night In Question among other things (like how to run a Sabbat game in general) with 25 Years Of Vampire: The Masquerade.

"The Lead Belt"

A BBC site article about RPGs actually mentions more than just D&D.

OnTableTop

OnTableTop is the new and bigger identity for Beasts Of War, the wargaming news site.

Solo concept art

A preview of the art of Solo, featuring a much more different early Millennium Falcon, a scruffy-looking Lando and... Highland cows?

Update: thirty more alternative early Falcons.

CHVRCHES: Love Is Dead

Almost four months after dropping Get Out as a single at the end of January, CHVRCHES launch Love Is Dead, with lyrics filled with morbid, romantic and religious woe.

Graffiti
Get Out
Deliverance
My Enemy
Forever
Never Say Die
Miracle
Graves
Heaven/Hell
God’s Plan
Really Gone
ii
Wonderland

Thinking of using some of these lyrics as quotes for Chronicles Of Darkness game pitches...

Ask me no questions, I will tell you no lies
Careful what you wish for
We’re lookin’ for angels in the darkest of skies
Sayin’ that we wanted more...

Oh baby you can look away
While they’re dancing on our graves
But I will stop at nothing
Oh, I will stop at nothing

Something could probably be done with spooky piano instrumental ii as well.

Solo: A Star Wars Story

More in a week. In the meantime, Leverage would be a better game for it than Edge Of The Empire.

Cavaliers Of Mars

Cavaliers Of Mars is out to Kickstarter backers. Return now to dying Mars in its last age of glory!

And oh Hell yes, I got in the Special Thanks!

Fetch Quest

The Pugmire collaborative family card game is now on Kickstarter! I love the multiple-punning title.

Would watch

By Stephen Byrne after the new toony Thundercats Roar announcement.

A botch I didn't even roll

Just had a Windows 10 update take half an hour, go from 51% to 45% on the timeline, require me to go into the command prompt to get the internet back online and I just had to remind it I have a UK keyboard.

Warhammer Adventures

Warhammer novels for the 8-12 bracket, for Age of Sigmar but also Warhammer 40,000, which seems more of a stretch to me because AoS has, you know, good guys in it.

Good to see non-white and female main characters in both series, and a disabled character in the 40K book.

And all of the 40K kids are heretics.

Thanks to Tumbleweed on RPG.net for the news.

More here, including writer Cavan Scott talking about starting the 40K line.

Drop-in settings

MMM suggests this:

Something I would love to see more of on #DMsGuild is locations that I can drop into a campaign. Local village, remote monastery, abandoned fortress, mining camp, farmers market, etc. Describe the location, add in half a dozen interesting NPCs, & a handful of story hooks, done.

I’ve been thinking about something similar for Storytellers Vault. D&D parties typically travel around more than Vampire: The Masquerade coteries, but there are plenty of classic locations like the dingy Rack nightclub, the police station, and the Tremere chantry.

Animated game maps

Dynamic Dungeons and other similar systems look fantastic if you have a screen on your table.

Chosen

The final episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer first aired fifteen years ago.